· 7/15/1986
Cusher v. Turner
Citations
- 495 N.E.2d 811
- 22 Mass. App. Ct. 491
- 1986 Mass. App. LEXIS 1722
How courts have described this case
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- upholding verdict against physician for negligent failure to diagnose ovarian cancer, on theory that “if such tests had been ordered . . . the cancer would have been discovered and removed, preventing its spread throughout the plaintiff’s body”
- three-year delay on defendant doctor’s part in diagnosing and treating patient’s cancer proximately caused metastasis of cancer leading to patient’s death
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Judges: Grant, Kaplan, Smith
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